None is the loneliest number
Category: Food... Just Plain Silly...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 04:01 PM [GMT-6]

I've decided that the Gazette's theme for 2008 will be a daily cellphone photo of dubious quality taken inside a grocery store to illustrate and even define the great issues of life. I'm pretty sure I have the material to stretch this through, oh, say, today.

Halloween came early today, as I was confronted by this horrific scene at the local market:

Photo - Empty freezer shelves where ice cream should be

These sadly empty shelves are where the Blue Bell ice cream is supposed to be. If you squinch your eyes in just the right fashion, you'll make out two lonely half gallon cartons of Breyer's, which are probably left over from 2006.

I think you'll agree that this is a problem of apocalyptic magnitude. Someone needs to do something.

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"Apocalyptic Magnitude" -- the new flavor from Ben & Jerry's.

Happy New Year, Eric, and good luck finding the Blue Bell. I ate it all.

Posted by: Bret at January 2, 2008 04:05 PM

I ate it all.

Well, as long as it went to good use... I was afraid that the Blue Bell employees had begun to take their corporate motto seriously.

Posted by: Eric at January 2, 2008 04:16 PM

The horror!

Posted by: Jim at January 2, 2008 04:54 PM

They're just rubbing it in with all those packages of spoons, too, aren't they?

Posted by: Brian at January 2, 2008 05:24 PM

you should have bought some here at georgetown h-e-b eric. there were tons of blue bell cartons today! and one of them is now residing (however temporarily) in my freezer. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

ahem. sorry.

Posted by: kyle at January 2, 2008 05:28 PM

What??? Not only the writers, but the cows went on strike, too?

May the Blue Bell be with you, Eric.

Posted by: Janie at January 3, 2008 12:14 AM

Poor Eric... We don't have that brand over here but I did have a yummy ice cream hehe.

Posted by: Rach at January 3, 2008 06:01 AM

I've always wanted to go to Brenham and go through the creamatory.

Posted by: dale at January 3, 2008 09:25 AM

Gah! Now the comedians have gone too far. There's some in our freezer if you'd like to drop by. ;-)

Posted by: gwynne at January 3, 2008 11:11 AM

Dale, I don't know that I'll ever be able to look at a carton of Blue Bell in quite the same way again after that reference.

Gwynne, it's cold enough up there AND down here that you could just drop ship it. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 3, 2008 03:21 PM

There is the possibility of a faulty thermostat in the freezer or some other problem that caused the store to temporarily evacuate the Blue Bell cartons to a storage area to avoid premature meltdown (The Breyer's? Those are the canaries in the coal mine, used by the store to check and see if it's safe for the Blue Bell cartons to return).

Posted by: John at January 3, 2008 10:37 PM
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